With e-currency based on cryptographic proof, without the need to trust a third party middleman, money can be secure and transactions effortless.

[Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.

It’s money 2.0, a huge huge huge deal.

Bitcoin is a technological tour de force.

Cryptology represents the future of privacy [and] by implication [it] also represents the future of money, and the future of banking and finance.

I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.

Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.

I think the internet is going to be one of the major forces for reducing the role of government. The one thing that’s missing but that will soon be developed, is a reliable e-cash.

There are 3 eras of currency: commodity based, politically based, and now, math based.

Bitcoin is a remarkable cryptographic achievement and the ability to create something that is not duplicable in the digital world has enormous value.